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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2023
Renu Robotics Corp., San Antonio, TX (US);
Michael Odell Blanton, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
RENU ROBOTICS CORP., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are solutions for proactively sensing terrain features and obstacles in the path of an autonomous vehicle that may be otherwise visually obscured by vegetation—said proactive sensing providing a view beyond that available to the autonomous vehicle by physically removing or pushing aside said obscuring vegetation—for the purpose of mitigating the risks the autonomous vehicle might otherwise encounter while traversing said terrain that comprises the obscuring vegetation. Accordingly, various implementations disclosed herein are directed to the novel utilization of vegetation-penetrating sensors by an autonomous vehicle to assist it in peering through such vegetation to identify navigational obstacles that are otherwise obscured by said vegetation.